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COVID-19-related order shuts down local hair salons, barbershops By Lance Armstrong VCN Staff Writer The state’s recent spike in confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) led to the mandatory closure of local hair salons and barbershops last week. Sacramento County public health officials issued this temporary order on July 14, after Gov. Gavin Newsom mandated that these businesses temporarily cease their operations. The order will continue until the county’s public health officer decides to lift it. Sacramento County is one of 30 California counties that Newsom mentioned in his mandate during his July 13 press conference. This county is on the state’s watch list of counties that have rising numbers of COVID-19 hospitalizations. Newsom addressed the rise in COVID-19 cases during his press conference. “We’re seeing an increase in the spread of the virus, so that’s why it’s incumbent upon all of us to recognize soberly that COVID-19 is not going away any time soon until there is a vaccine or an effective therapy,” he said. In her July 14 order, Sacramento County Public Health Officer

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The interior of Torque Hair Shoppe at 3716 J St. is pictured prior to its recent temporary closure. The order will continue until the county’s public health officer decides to lift it.

Dr. Olivia Kasirye stated that this county had 150 COVID-related hospitalizations on July 10. She also noted that 16% of intensive care unit beds are available in the county, as of press time. “Private gatherings have been identified as a significant contribut-

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ing factor to the increase in transmission,” Kasirye mentioned in the July 14 order. “Given current rates of transmission and increase in hospitalization in Sacramento County, there is a need to reduce nonessential gatherings where mixing and disease spread occur.” Kasirye’s staff reported that as of July 15, Sacramento County had 6,174 confirmed cases and 92 deaths since March. Sacramento County’s order, which also calls for the closure of places of worship and gymnasiums, left many hairstylists and barbers frustrated. Hair salons and barbershops in the coverage areas of Valley Community Newspapers found themselves in familiar territory. These businesses previously experienced a temporary closure during the government stay-at-

home order that affected those establishments. Hairstylists and barbers were allowed to return to work in late May. Those reopenings came with various requirements, including that both workers and clients must wear face coverings, a new smock or cape needs to be given to each client, and working stations and high-traffic areas must be sanitized on a regular basis. East Sacramento Jennifer Arrington, owner of Torque Hair Shoppe at 37th and J streets, and a licensed cosmetologist, mentioned that having to close her shop was financially challenging. “It’s been a hard struggle, I’m not going to lie,” she said. “I’ve been in East Sac at this location where this barbershop is for 16

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years and I’ve been licensed for 25 years and I’ve never had to go through anything like this. “Barbershops, in general, don’t operate on a high profit margin as it is. The money we make is month to month, it’s day to day. So, it’s not like we have a big reserve of funds just sitting and waiting to be used up.” Arrington mentioned that she is struggling with the decision that was made to order her business to be temporarily shut down. “We’re governed by the state of California to get that license (to work in a hair salon or barbershop),” she said. “We have to pass a test that basically ensures public safety, and it seems like that is being entirely overlooked over any of it. “Our license is to not (spread) diseases, and it’s for public safety. It doesn’t mean like we have a license and we know how to cut hair. And we work with the state board all the time. We get surprise inspections. It’s seems like our licenses are not being taken into account for what we do.” Pocket-Greenhaven Brian Wong, owner of Passion Hair on Rush River Drive, also expressed concerns with his finances. “I saved up a bunch of money,” he said. “It probably will last a couple more months, but in order to last for my lease, which is another four years, I don’t think that’s doable. That’s why I’m trying to at least get a job for like DoorDash or Postmates to at least pay for the rent.” Wong noted that his greatest frustration with the closure is having to pay rent on a shop that he is not able to use. “It’s not like there’s a forgiven loan or anything, and if there is it’s only accessible by certain people who have connections and everything,” he said. Wong described being caught off guard by the order to shut down his business again. “I thought it was a joke,” he said. “It’s kind of like the boy who cried wolf. I was like, ‘Is this real or is this fake? What’s going on?’” He added that because the order required immediate closure, he was placed in a position to quickly make phone calls to many clients who already made appointments. “I had to manually call everybody to (say), ‘Sorry, we’re closing due to the governor’s order,’” Wong said. Land Park Anthony Giannotti, owner of Anthony’s Barbershop at 2408 21st St., told this paper that he was not surprised to hear about the govsee SALONS page 5

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Garden guru shares advice on gardening with children By Monica Stark

Plant whatever brings you joy. I read that book and I like the title, but the very idea is problematic since planting anything is wrought with the opposite of joy – horrible sinus pain. Give me my Benadryl, a glass of wine, draw a bath and I’ll see you in the morning. When toilet paper became a rare commodity due to the corona, I freaked out and became a TP hoarder. I even joked on Facebook about how I use a roll a day to keep the boogers at bay. I had folks volunteering to make me hankies! Sometimes my allergies actually make me sad because I want to be that mom, the one with the beautiful victory garden tended to with help from her 8 year old daughter. You, know, that Waldorf mom who also likes crafts and could sew her own darn hankies (and Covid-19 face masks, which could also be helpful with the allergies when gardening, I suppose). When I think of my dear mom friend (and friend in general) Sara Bailey I have an image of her wearing her gardening shoes, hat and gloves while her two children play in the dirt and watch the grass grow. She is that mom who plants joy at school. She’s also my friend whose children sewed me some hankies and gave me a packet of harvested sunflower seeds. Sunflowers do bring me joy. She must have known. Afterall, Sara has two children and runs the garden program at our children’s school. Over the phone she explained the Mexican Sunflowers are easy to grow; even children have success with them. Excellent. Also a community seed-sharer, Sara saved seeds from last year’s harvest, including Mexican Sunflower, to basil, squash, pole and bush beans beans, making for neighborly exchanges during the quarantine. “Some were from seeds I saved and some were from friends and family that we exchanged with. Valley Community Newspapers, Inc.

I planted so many seeds, so I had so many to share. It was one thing we could do – share. That was like ‘elevendy’ years ago. It feels like 400 years ago we were planting seeds.” Her expertise working with children in the garden has grown over the years. Sara says Soil Born Farms in Rancho Cordova has helped instruct grown-ups, like herself, on how to explain plants to them. She learned that teaching kids how their hands are tools and how they can use them in the garden have born fruitful results. And, planting different size seeds requires specific handling; you can plant that one seed with your finger. “Otherwise you end up with 4 million seeds all over the place, which happens anyway, and that’s totally fine. That’s all part of it,” she says. If you actually want to get some gardening done, Sara recommends having a clear plan and supplies at the ready. That said, sometimes it’s best not to have a plan and be more openended and ask them to use their senses to see what’s there. “That doesn’t have to be so structured. It’s a balance of figuring out what needs to get done and what makes sense to do with kids and just having it really planned out.” Bringing her to a total letgo of control, Sara said gardening with children will never be the way you planned it in your head no matter how much planning you do. So much of it is going with the flow. For instance, when they ask questions, she doesn’t always answer them. Rather, she lets their curiosity stay in that zone and asks them what they think. While children at the school always ask to grow carrots, Sara advises against it. “It’s not that I don’t do carrots with kids – they’re just hard. They don’t germinate really easily and they take forever to grow.” On the flip-side, radishes although aren’t typically a crowd-pleas-

ing vegetable, Sara likes to plant them with children because of how quickly they germinate. “In a short amount of time, you will have radishes, which is not a thing kids necessarily love. If you cut them up and offer them to a bunch of kids, and a couple of them like them, then more kids will try them. They are just fun to do because they happen really fast.” Additionally, she says sweet peas are fun and any type of squash are great because they grow really fast. Sometimes things in school gardens you have to think about because things like summer squash and tomatoes do most of their growing in the summer when kids aren’t there. On the other hand, pumpkins are great if someone on campus can do the watering over the summer. So, in theory when the kids return to school, they have pumpkins. One of her favorite things to plant with children is borage, an annual that re-seeds itself easily.“They have awesome purplish blue flowers on them and you can pop the flower off; it’s edible and tastes almost like a cucumber. Some people make tea with them. They don’t take up a lot of space and they’re super fun. That’s one people don’t know a lot about and they’re cool.” Sara says that when she’s at school she notices big differences in some children’s behavior when they get a chance to go outside.“When you’re at a school in your classroom, these walls are around you. Outside, you get to see a different part of kids. There are kids if you are sitting next to them and not looking at them and you’re just digging in the dirt together, they will talk to you. You could spend a lot of time in the classroom with them and not ever hear from them directly. The garden is a really safe place for kids to be who they are. There is something for every kid. There’s something that they’re good at. There are some kids that are really great at rip-

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ping out weeds, some who like heavy lifting, and there’s things that are more finesse like weeding in between the teeny tiny flowers.” Sara says there’s a place for everybody in the garden. Perhaps there’s hope.

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Hospice Makes a Difference in Many Peoples’ Lives By Jan Dalske My neighbor’s mother was 96. She appeared to be in good health for a woman of her age. But, as we all know, appearances could be deceiving. She had multiple illnesses and took over 23 prescriptions daily. She had diabetes which required blood sticks four times daily, as well as multiple shots of insulin. Her health was not great but she was alert and active at an age when most seniors are in much worse shape. Her daughter got advice from her mother’s doctor to put her mother under hospice care. This made me curious to see just what hospice was and what services they offered their clients. This is what I found out. Hospice care is designed to give supportive care to people in the final phase of a terminal illness and focus on comfort and quality of life, rather than cure. The goal is to enable patients to be comfortable and free of pain, so that they live each day as fully as possible. Hospice is on call twenty four hours a day. There are four levels of hospice care, as defined by Medicare, to meet the varying needs of patients and their families. These four types of hospice include routine home care, continuous home care, general inpatient care, and respite care. There are signs that your body could be shutting down. You could have different sleep-wake patterns, little appetite and thirst, fewer and smaller bowel movements and less pee with more pain. There could be changes in blood pressure, breathing, and heart rate. Body temperature ups and downs that may leave their skin cool, warm, moist, or pale. So, what exactly is hospice care? Well, unlike the other types of med-

ical care that are out there, hospice care focuses on caring for a person who has a terminal illness as opposed to trying to cure them. While working with those who are terminally ill, hospice workers focus on providing them with pain management. They also strive to set them up with the emotional and psychological support they need during their final months, weeks, and days. Hospice care is a concept that’s still in its infancy compared to many other forms of medical care. The first hospice facility opened in London in 1967, and it took until 1974 for one to open in the U.S. But since then, hospice care has grown in popularity among many American families. More than 1.5 million people utilize hospice services every year with more than 40 percent of the deaths in the U.S. taking place while a person is taking part in a hospice care program. So, what exactly is hospice care? Well, unlike the other types of medical care that are out there, hospice care focuses on caring for a person who has a terminal illness as opposed to trying to cure them. While working with those who are terminally ill, hospice workers focus on providing them with pain management. They also strive to set them up with the emotional and psychological support they need during their final months, weeks, and days. Hospice doesn’t include the placement of feeding tubes, or any other steps taken to prolong life at this stage of care. However, patients who already have a feeding tube in place may benefit from hospice services. Sometimes, very close to the end of life, patients may choose to have feeding tubes removed. Hospice is not for people who are dying. Hospice is for people who

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have a limited life expectancy. Hospice is for patients whose condition is such that a doctor would not be surprised if the patient died within the next six months. There are rules for hospice. A doctor must certify that a patient meets all of these requirements: A fatal medical condition for which the patient is not seeking curative treatment. An expected prognosis of six months or less. Assisting the patient and family members with the emotional, psychosocial and spiritual aspects of dying. The medical definition of Hospice care: Care designed to give supportive care to people in the final phase of a terminal illness and focus on comfort and quality of life, rather than cure. The goal is to enable patients to be comfortable and free of pain, so that they live each day as fully as possible. Do you know someone who was just diagnosed with a terminal illness? If so, you should know that you’re not alone. Studies have shown that more than 40 percent of people have had either a close friend or family member diagnosed with a terminal illness over the last five years. You should also know that there are steps you can take to make your friend or family member’s life as comfortable as possible moving forward. Knowing when to put someone in hospice care is one thing you can do to help someone who is suffering. It’s not always easy to put a loved one into a hospice. But it’s often the best thing for their physical and mental well-being. While working with those who are terminally ill, hospice workers focus on providing them with pain management. They also strive to set them up with the emotional and psychological support they need during their final months, weeks, and days. Additionally, hospice workers are capable of providing the families of those who are terminally ill with support throughout the process. They can show people how to properly care for their loved ones while offering up grief support and counseling services to them. Hospice care is available at home for those families who don’t wish to put their loved ones into a hospice facility. But in many cases, it becomes too difficult for families to care for their loved ones on their own, which is when a hospice facility can come in handy. Hospice care is available to those of all ages and has proven to be extremely beneficial to those who take advantage of it. It’s designed to ensure that your close friend or family member is well taken care of towards the end

of their life. There are ten signs that your loved one needs Hospice Care. Despite the many benefits that come along with hospice care, there are still some families that are hesitant about using it. They don’t want their terminally ill friends and family members to feel as though they’re giving up on them. It’s natural for families to feel this way. But that shouldn’t stop you from considering when to put someone in hospice. It could improve their quality of life dramatically and allow them to enjoy the time that they have left rather than suffering. 1. They’re Almost Always in Pain. There are a lot of terminal illnesses that force people to live with persistent pain. Terminal conditions like pancreatic cancer, Lesch-Nyhan syndrome, and more can make it virtually impossible for people to move around throughout the day. They can also take a toll on a person’s mental health and make them feel miserable just about all the time. Hospice care can help these people manage their pain more effectively. Hospice workers specialize in figuring out why a person is in pain and showing them what to do to take care of it. It’s not always possible to eliminate pain with hospice care. But most people can make improvements with their pain within just a few days. 2. Take Regular Trips to the ER or Hospital Does it seem like your loved one is always checking in and out of the hospital for one reason or another? You should speak with their doctor about what you can do to prevent some of the issues that are taking place. In some cases, your loved one might not be taking their medications as instructed (more on that later), or they might not be taking good enough care of themselves at home (more on that later, as well). But either way, you need to do something to prevent your loved one from checking into and out of the hospital all the time. And a hospice care facility might just do the trick. A good hospice care facility will give your loved one the long-term care they need to manage their terminal illness better. It’ll increase the chances of them staying out of the hospital for long stretches of time. 3. Can’t Take Care of Themselves Anymore There are a bunch of daily tasks that people need to be able to do to live at home on their own. They must be capable of: eating, bathing, dressing themselves, using the bathroom, walking and more. When your loved one is initially diagnosed with a terminal illness, they might be able to do all these things

with ease. But over time, they could start to struggle with one or all of them. And it’ll begin to affect their health. If, for example, your loved one isn’t bathing on a daily basis anymore, they’ll make themselves more susceptible to certain infections. They’ll also likely suffer from different skin conditions as a result. Hospice care centers can help those with terminal illnesses to take better care of themselves. From eating regular meals to take baths every day, you’ll sleep better at night knowing your loved one isn’t suffering needlessly because they can’t do daily tasks anymore. 4. Forget to Take Medications Hospice care workers will not recommend new medications for people to try to combat a terminal illness. Your loved one’s primary doctor is in charge of doing that. However, workers can and will encourage your loved one to take their prescribed medications regularly when watching over them. This will prevent your loved one from forgetting to take their medications and suffering because of it. Taking medications might seem like a no-brainer to you, especially if those medications are helping keep your loved one alive. But believe it or not, about 50 percent of people with chronic conditions fail to take their medications as prescribed. You can prevent your loved one from falling into that category by entrusting a hospice care worker to make sure they take their medications. It’ll stop them from suffering any more than they have to. 5. They Slip and Fall As we mentioned earlier, the pain associated with some terminal illnesses can make it just about impossible for some people to get around. They end up spending entire days in bed or in a chair because their pain won’t allow them to stand up and walk. The pain can also lead to slips and falls. It can cause injuries to occur and, in some rare instances, it can even lead to death. If your loved one is over the age of 65, potential slips and falls should already be on your radar. Approximately 40 percent of the fatal injuries involving those over 65 are the result of slips and falls. But you need to be especially mindful of slips and falls involving people with terminal illnesses. They’re often at an increased risk of falling and hurting themselves due to their pain. A hospice care facility can reduce the risks associated with them moving around. 6. Losing Weight at a Rapid Pace Have you noticed that your loved see HOSPICE page 5 Valley Community Newspapers, Inc.

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one has lost a ton of weight in recent weeks? It could be due to the medications they’re taking to the terminal illness that is wreaking havoc on their bodies. There is also a chance that they’re not eating enough and losing weight because of that. Whatever the case, your loved one’s rapid weight loss should concern you. It could cause them to become very weak and make it even more difficult for them to live a somewhat normal life. By looking into your hospice care options, you can help them maintain a healthy weight. That alone could improve their life by leaps and bounds. 7. Also Losing Their Mental Abilities Those with a terminal

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ernment order to temporarily shut down his business. “We had been kind of hearing rumors through the industry and out of the Capitol for a couple of days that we might be getting shut down again,” he said. “Honestly, just looking at Newsom’s guidelines and the way Sacramento County was kind of headed, it was kind of expected.” Giannotti explained that he is taking an understanding approach to the shutdown. “I don’t think there’s a point in agreeing or disagreeing with (the order),” he said. “It is what it is. These are the powers that be. “Yeah, there are other channels that we can use to put some pressure on the government, but in all reality, people are getting sick and dying, and that’s a big concern. We’re going to be stuck in this cycle. I think it’s more important to try to deliver a health message to wear a mask and do what we can.” Giannotti added that the financial impact of running the business during the pandemic extends beyond the shutdowns. “It’s like a financial cliff,” he said. “You can go from being fully booked one week to not even half booked the next week.” He also noted that a lot of people get scared to come into his barbershop. “We do an abnormal amount of last-minute cancellations and nocall no-shows,” Giannotti said. “I think people just hear a new report that comes out for the day and they get freaked out and they don’t call Valley Community Newspapers, Inc.

illness will often lose more than just weight. They’ll also start to lose their mental abilities in some cases. This can, as you might imagine, affect them in all kinds of ways. It will: Cause them to become confused at certain times of the day, Make it even more difficult for them to carry out daily tasks, Impact their ability to stay on top of their medications If your loved one appears to be struggling to keep things together mentally, it might not be long before it’s impossible for you to give them the care they need. You’ll need the assistance of a hospice care professional to guide the way. 8. Constantly Dealing With Infections Seniors are more susceptible to infections than the rest of the population. Part of it is because many of them suffer from several different

health conditions at once. All of those conditions can attack different parts of their bodies and make it difficult for their immune systems to stave off infections. But part of it is also because many of them don’t take good enough care of their bodies. They don’t bathe themselves properly and don’t move around enough, which leaves them open to infections. If your loved one is dealing with lots of infections on top of their terminal illness, it’s going to wear their bodies down over time. It’s also going to force them to spend more time in the hospital than they want. By taking them to a hospice care facility, you can eliminate at least some of the risk of infections setting in and allow them to stay a little bit healthier. 9. Struggling to Sleep Older adults should be getting anywhere from seven to nine hours of sleep

every night. But some studies have suggested that up to 50 percent of them struggle to sleep at night. Has your loved one told you that they can’t sleep well anymore? It could be a result of their constant. There are some medications that can also cause insomnia. When you place them into hospice care, someone will work with them to figure out why they struggle to sleep so much. A hospice worker will contact their primary doctor and come up with a solution to this problem. 10. Living With a Very Low Quality of Life It’s often hard for those living with a terminal illness to find joy in life. Amongst all the problems that the terminal illness causes and the grim outlook for their future, people have a tough time seeing the positives day in and day out. If your loved one doesn’t ever

seem happy, hospice care might be able to change their outlook on life. It’ll remove some of the pain they’re feeling and give them the comfort they crave. And it could very well restore their quality of life and make them feel alive again for the first time in a long time. Understanding When to Put Someone in Hospice Is Important The idea of hospice care might seem scary, both to you and to your loved one. Initially, it might feel like you and your loved one are both giving in to the harsh reality that comes along with having a terminal disease. But look at it another way. Hospice care can actually give your loved one their life back in many ways and let them enjoy life while they still can. You need to understand when to put someone in hospice and make the decision to do it before it’s too late.

and cancel, or they do and we don’t have a chance to rebook.” Prior to the shutdown, barbers at Anthony’s Barbershop were making about 65% of what they made prior to the pandemic, Giannotti noted. Carmichael Darryl Elam, owner of Darryl’s Hair Studio & Spa, on Fair Oaks Boulevard, expressed his support of the recent county order that temporarily shut down his business. “(That is) what we should have done – shut it back down again – because I thought we opened up too soon,” he said. “Really, it’s definitely hurting my business and everything else. But what can we do? We have to get this virus under control.” Elam added that he is frustrated by the many people who do not face wear coverings or take any other precautions to prevent the potential spreading of COVID-19. “They’re just going to kill more people,” he said. “It just doesn’t make sense. And I don’t see no other option, but to close down. It’s going to hurt us all, but we have to deal with it.” Elam mentioned that with the economic impact that the recent closure will have on his business, he plans to seek financial assistance. “I’m going to have to definitely apply for (assistance) and see where we go from there,” he said. Moving forward, Elam encouraged people to be safe to help reduce the spread of COVID-19. “It’s not going to get any better anytime soon, if we don’t stay at home and keep our people safe,” he said. “And one of the things that I would hate is to have an asymptomatic client to come into the salon and get us all infected.” www.valcomnews.com • July 24, 2020 • Arden-Carmichael News

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